How Does Oscar Wilde Use Satire In The Importance Of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde employs satirical humor in order to set the tone of arrogance to discuss the disregards society is capable of in order to fit into social standards. These social standards are ridiculed through the use of sarcasm and exaggeration. By creating characters who are willingly refusing the obvious immoralities Oscar wilde expresses his opinion on the false illusion of marriage and the perfect family. The extends people will go through to fit into the accepted fixed image.
By exaggerating characters for example Gwendolen, Oscar discusses the disdain disregard many are capable of overlooking just to fit into a fantasy fairy tale they seek. In which because she is young and ignorant believes she is destined to marry a man of the name Earnest because he will be the
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Unsure of whom he really was he told Gwendolen his name was Earnest even though ironically at the end it all was true she accepted his attempts because to her belief if a man is not willing to lie to her he does not truly love her. Also as a paradox because that means that to her the lies are better than the truth. By creating such love story Oscar commented on how society has been set up to be in the real world though many years. Amenably accept deception because of the fixed illusion of a perfect marriage in which deception is accepted because of the way it makes one feel.
Many adolescents willingly accepting the lies told to them by social media. Celebrity role models having a perfect family, films with the perfect love story a happy ending and a changed for the better man.
Another example is Gwendolen's mother Lady Bracknell a strong materialistic woman whose main priority was to impress not concerned on who Earnest was but on what his status said. Like many women in the real world she was concerned on what he had to offer to her status and image. Because he confessed to her his name wasn't Earnest she began

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